Oxford's own 2025 data puts Singapore's offer rate at 15.2%: 637 applications, 97 offers, 87 acceptances. That ties Hong Kong for the highest offer rate among Asia's biggest applicant pools, well above China (10.9%) and India (6.0%). The rate has stayed between 14.3% and 19.8% every year since 2021.
Source: University of Oxford, “Nationality and Domicile” and “UCAS Apply Centre” admissions statistics dashboards (2021–2025 cycles).
Singapore's Five-Year Oxford Journey
Singapore's Oxford applications climbed from a 2022 low of 570 to 637 in 2025, the highest of the five years shown. Offers peaked in 2022 (113, a 19.8% offer rate) before settling back into a steadier 15–18% band. 2025's 97 offers and 87 acceptances are close to the five-year average.
Singapore's Oxford pipeline, 2021–2025
Applications, offers and acceptances — domicile = Singapore, all subjects
| Year | Applications | Offers | Offer rate | Acceptances | Acceptance rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 600 | 86 | 14.3% | 70 | 11.7% |
| 2022 | 570 | 113 | 19.8% | 92 | 16.1% |
| 2023 | 574 | 103 | 17.9% | 85 | 14.8% |
| 2024 | 610 | 96 | 15.7% | 80 | 13.1% |
| 2025 | 637 | 97 | 15.2% | 87 | 13.7% |
Domicile = Singapore, all subjects. Source: University of Oxford, “Nationality and Domicile” Tableau dashboard.
Looking at the same five years as rates instead of head-counts shows something different. Singapore's offer rate has never dipped below 14.3%, but it has also never matched its 2022 high of 19.8% again. The acceptance rate is the share of all applicants who ended up taking a place. It has stayed within 2 percentage points of the offer rate every year, so very few offer-holders turn Oxford down.
Singapore's offer rate vs acceptance rate
Offer rate = offers ÷ applications · Acceptance rate = acceptances ÷ applications
Singapore vs Its Rivals — Asia Deep-Dive
Singapore's 2025 offer rate (15.2%) is basically tied with Hong Kong (15.3%)for the highest among Asia's largest Oxford applicant pools. That's far above China (10.9%) and India (6.0%), even though both countries send several times more total applications.
Offer rate by country, 2021–2025
Singapore vs its biggest Asian applicant pools (Oxford domicile data)
Asia, 2025 cycle: applications, offers & acceptances
2025 cycleClick any column header to sort.| Domicile | Apps | Offers | Offer rate | Acc. | Acc. rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore | 637 | 97 | 15.2% | 87 | 13.7% |
| Hong Kong | 432 | 66 | 15.3% | 56 | 13.0% |
| Malaysia | 170 | 19 | 11.2% | 16 | 9.4% |
| China | 1991 | 218 | 10.9% | 176 | 8.8% |
| Indonesia | 69 | 8 | 11.6% | 7 | 10.1% |
| Thailand | 61 | 7 | 11.5% | 6 | 9.8% |
| South Korea | 171 | 16 | 9.4% | 11 | 6.4% |
| Vietnam | 29 | 2 | 6.9% | 2 | 6.9% |
| India | 612 | 37 | 6.0% | 28 | 4.6% |
| Japan | 61 | 10 | 16.4% | 9 | 14.8% |
| Taiwan | 46 | 2 | 4.3% | 0 | 0.0% |
China sends three times more Oxford applications than Singapore every year, but turns a smaller share of them into offers.
Singapore on the World Stage
By 2025 application volume among overseas (non-UK) domiciles, Singapore ranks 3rd in the world. Only China and the United States send more applications, and Singapore is ahead of much bigger countries like India, Canada, and Germany.
| Domicile | Apps | Offers | Offer rate | Acc. | Acc. rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 1991 | 218 | 10.9% | 176 | 8.8% |
| United States | 1138 | 128 | 11.2% | 83 | 7.3% |
| Singapore | 637 | 97 | 15.2% | 87 | 13.7% |
| Hong Kong | 432 | 66 | 15.3% | 56 | 13.0% |
| India | 612 | 37 | 6.0% | 28 | 4.6% |
| Canada | 314 | 32 | 10.2% | 28 | 8.9% |
| Australia | 188 | 31 | 16.5% | 26 | 13.8% |
| GermanyNon-EU (33 apps/3 offers) + EU (233 apps/21 offers) rows combined | 266 | 24 | 9.0% | 21 | 7.9% |
| Malaysia | 170 | 19 | 11.2% | 16 | 9.4% |
| South Korea | 171 | 16 | 9.4% | 11 | 6.4% |
| Pakistan | 178 | 9 | 5.1% | 7 | 3.9% |
| Nigeria | 25 | 2 | 8.0% | 1 | 4.0% |
Top overseas (non-UK) domiciles by 2025 applications, offers, and acceptances. Oxford's published domicile table does not include the UK itself, so this ranks only international applicant pools.
Which Singapore Schools Apply to Oxford
This table covers every Singapore-based UCAS Apply Centre in Oxford's 2023–2025 three-year non-UK Apply Centre report, sorted by total applications. It shows the 2025 cycle and the full 3-year total side by side, so you always know which one you're looking at. Raffles Institution leads on total offers (91 from 437 applications over 2023–2025). Temasek Junior College and NUS High School post the highest 3-year offer rates.
†Oxford's source data labels this Apply Centre “Raffles Junior College, Singapore” — the historic UCAS registration name still used for Raffles Institution's pre-university section. No separate “Raffles Institution” row exists, so it is relabelled here for clarity.
Biggest Oxford feeders, 2023–2025 total
3-year total 2023–2025Highest offer rate, 2023–2025 total
3-year total 2023–2025Biggest Oxford feeders, 2025
2025 cycleHighest offer rate, 2025
2025 cycleSingle-year, per-school counts are small, so 2025 offer rates jump around a lot. NUS High's 60% is only 6 offers from 10 applications. That's one good year, not a rate you'd expect every year.
Every Singapore Apply Centre — 2025 cycle & 3-year total, side by side
| Apply Centre | 2025 cycle | 3-year total 2023–2025 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Offers | Apps | Offers | Rate | Acc. | |
| Raffles Institution†UCAS Apply Centre labelled "Raffles Junior College, Singapore" — historic registration name for Raffles Institution's pre-university section. | 161 | 25 | 437 | 91 | 21% | 76 |
| Hwa Chong Institution | 78 | 22 | 234 | 59 | 25% | 51 |
| Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) | 38 | 6 | 109 | 19 | 17% | 17 |
| United World College of South East Asia, Dover Campus | 30 | ≤3 | 103 | 17 | 17% | 11 |
| NUS High School of Mathematics and Science | 10 | 6 | 41 | 13 | 32% | 9 |
| Tanglin Trust School | 29 | 5 | 66 | 12 | 18% | 11 |
| Eunoia Junior College | 19 | ≤3 | 66 | 9 | 14% | 9 |
| SJI InternationalA private international school, distinct from St. Joseph's Institution (MOE junior college) and from the separate suppressed row below. | 15 | 4 | 34 | 7 | 21% | 7 |
| UWC South East Asia, East Campus | 15 | ≤3 | 51 | 6 | 12% | 6 |
| Singapore American School | 9 | ≤3 | 33 | 6 | 18% | 4 |
| Dunman High School | 11 | 3 | 38 | 5 | 13% | 4 |
| Anglo-Chinese Junior College | 9 | 3 | 29 | 5 | 17% | 5 |
| Victoria Junior College | 21 | ≤3 | 54 | 4 | 7% | 4 |
| Nanyang Junior CollegeApplications and offers exact; acceptances suppressed (<3). | 5 | ≤3 | 17 | 4 | 24% | ≤3 |
| River Valley High SchoolApplications and offers exact; acceptances suppressed (<3). | 8 | ≤3 | 24 | 3 | 13% | ≤3 |
| Dulwich College (Singapore) | 8 | ≤3 | 19 | 3 | 16% | 3 |
| ACS (International)A private international school, distinct from Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) above. | 11 | ≤3 | 31 | ≤3 | — | ≤3 |
| Overseas Family School | 3 | ≤3 | 11 | ≤3 | — | ≤3 |
| Catholic Junior College | 6 | ≤3 | 10 | ≤3 | — | ≤3 |
| St Joseph's Institution International SchoolPossibly a distinct UCAS registration from SJI International, Singapore above — recorded separately per source data. | ≤3 | ≤3 | 8 | ≤3 | — | ≤3 |
| Stamford American International School | ≤3 | ≤3 | 6 | ≤3 | — | ≤3 |
2025 cycle: apps/offers only. 3-year total, 2023–2025 cycles: apps/offers/offer rate/acceptances. Source: University of Oxford, “UCAS Apply Centre” report (Non-UK schools). Two schools (St Joseph's Institution International School, Stamford American International School) have no confirmed matching 2025-only row, shown as “≤3”. If you add up a school's single-year figures by hand, they often won't match the 3-year total here — see “Why the years don't add up to the total” below for why.
Singapore's Top Oxford Feeders, Year by Year (2021–2025)
| School | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raffles Institution | 15729 offers | 14337 offers | 14736 offers | 12930 offers | 16125 offers |
| Hwa Chong Institution | 9215 offers | 6929 offers | 6617 offers | 9020 offers | 7822 offers |
| Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) | 628 offers | 426 offers | 397 offers | 326 offers | 386 offers |
| UWCSEA, Dover Campus | 353 offers | 323 offers | 386 offers | 359 offers | 30≤3 offers |
| Eunoia Junior College | 245 offers | 235 offers | 274 offers | 203 offers | 19≤3 offers |
| Tanglin Trust School | 124 offers | 285 offers | 153 offers | 224 offers | 295 offers |
| NUS High School of Mathematics and Science | — | 186 offers | 213 offers | 104 offers | 106 offers |
| Victoria Junior College | 19≤3 offers | 174 offers | 16≤3 offers | 17≤3 offers | 21≤3 offers |
| National Junior College | 174 offers | — | — | — | — |
Each cell shows applications, with offers below. Source: University of Oxford, “UCAS Apply Centre” report (Non-UK schools), 2021–2025 cycles. Watch National Junior College's row: 17 applications and 4 offers in 2021, then no row at all for four straight cycles.
Why the years don't add up to the total
If you try to add up a school's yearly figures by hand, they often fall short of the 3-year total above. That's not an error — it's the suppression rule at work. Oxford hides any single-year figure under 3, but still counts it in the 3-year total. Temasek Junior College is a clear example: it shows 7 offers for 2023–2025, but only 2024 (5 offers) is big enough to show on its own. 2023 and 2025 were each under 3, so they're hidden in the yearly view but still counted in the total. That's why the years often add up to less than the 3-year total, and you can't reconcile them by hand.
A five-year data mystery
The curious case of National Junior College
National Junior College was a real Oxford feeder as recently as 2021. That year its UCAS Apply Centre recorded 17 applications and 4 offers: a 24% offer rate, and 3 of those offers turned into places. Then it vanished from the data. There's no row for NJC in 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025 — not even a suppressed one. Nothing, for four cycles running.
The likely explanation: NJC students probably now apply through the generic “Apply Online Overseas” UCAS route, or apply independently, instead of through a school-registered Apply Centre code. So from 2022 onward, their applications just stop showing up under NJC's name. This doesn't mean NJC stopped sending students to Oxford. It means this particular Oxford report can't see them anymore.
Don't take our word for it — check the live source: Oxford's UCAS Apply Centre dashboard — set the cycle to each year and sort by school name to confirm the list for yourself.
Oxford vs Cambridge for Singapore
Oxford and Cambridge report their data differently. Oxford tracks student domicile(country of residence) nationally. Cambridge tracks each school's own UCAS Apply Centre. They don't measure exactly the same thing, so you can't merge the two tables into one number.
| School | Oxford | Cambridge | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Offers | Rate | Apps | Offers | Rate | |
| Raffles Institution | 161 | 25 | 16% | 113 | 44 | 38.9% |
| Hwa Chong Institution | 78 | 22 | 28% | 86 | 25 | 29.1% |
| Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) | 38 | 6 | 16% | 62 | 15 | 24.2% |
| NUS High School | 10 | 6 | 60% | 58 | 29 | 50.0% |
Oxford = University of Oxford UCAS Apply Centre, 2025 cycle. Cambridge = our existing Cambridge Admissions 2025 post, 2025 cycle.
Reading this honestly
Oxford's single-year, per-school numbers are small. NUS High had just 10 Oxford applications in 2025, so its 60% offer rate is one good year, not something to expect every year. With that in mind: Cambridge makes more offers per Singapore school than Oxford does in 2025, across all four schools above. Raffles Institution is the clearest example — 44 Cambridge offers versus 25 at Oxford. Read this table alongside our Cambridge Admissions 2025: How Singapore Schools Stack Up Against the World. Both posts show the same thing: Singapore's strongest JCs are consistently among the world's top non-UK Oxbridge feeders.
How to Read This Data
- Suppression rule: Oxford/UCAS withholds any raw figure (applications, offers, or acceptances) under 3 to protect student anonymity. Wherever this article shows “≤3”, the real number is 0, 1, or 2 — never treat it as exact, and never sum suppressed values into a precise total.
- Domicile, not nationality:the country-level tables in this article use Oxford's domicile field — where a student is based before applying — not their citizenship. A Singapore-domiciled applicant may hold any nationality; the figures do not track ethnicity or passport.
- Offers vs acceptances: an offer is typically conditional on final exam grades and, for many Oxford courses, an admissions test or interview outcome; an acceptance is a student who met those conditions and firmly took up the place. Some offer-holders do not meet conditions, and some accept a place elsewhere instead.
- Apply-centre caveat:the schools table only counts applications submitted through a school's own registered UCAS Apply Centre. Many Singapore students apply through the generic “Apply Online Overseas” bucket instead of through their school's code. That's most likely why National Junior College— a real Oxford feeder as recently as 2021 (17 apps, 4 offers) — has had no Apply Centre row since. No row doesn't mean no applicants.
- Source:all figures are drawn directly from the University of Oxford's official admissions statistics Tableau dashboards (“Nationality and Domicile” and “UCAS Apply Centre” views), covering the 2021–2025 admissions cycles. No number in this article comes from any other source.
What This Means for Singapore Parents
Singapore's 15.2% offer rate, and Raffles Institution's 91 offers over three years, are school- and country-level numbers. They tell you how competitive the pool is, not whether any one student gets in. That comes down to your grades, your admissions test, and your interview. A strong track record at a school just means a big, well-prepared group of applicants every year. It doesn't mean a lower bar.
If you're a JC or IP student weighing Oxford against Cambridge or another university: pick the school and course that fit you first. Then use the numbers in this article to set realistic expectations, because getting into either Oxford or Cambridge is hard, even from Singapore's strongest schools.
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Raffles Institution School Profile
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Singapore's highest Oxford offer rate (32%) among the largest 2023–2025 apply centres.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What's Singapore's Oxford offer rate in 2025?
Singapore recorded 637 applications, 97 offers, and 87 acceptances to Oxford in the 2025 admissions cycle — a 15.2% offer rate and a 13.7% acceptance rate. That offer rate has held in a 14.3%–19.8% band every year since 2021.
Which Singapore school gets the most Oxford offers?
Raffles Institution's UCAS Apply Centre — labelled "Raffles Junior College, Singapore" in the source data — recorded the most offers of any Singapore school apply centre over 2023–2025: 91 offers from 437 applications (21% offer rate), with 76 converting to acceptances.
Which Singapore school has the highest Oxford offer rate?
Among schools with exact (non-suppressed) 3-year figures, Temasek Junior College (33%, 7 offers from 21 applications) and NUS High School of Mathematics and Science (32%, 13 offers from 41 applications) posted the highest offer rates.
Is it easier to get into Oxford from Singapore than from China?
Singapore's 2025 offer rate (15.2%) is roughly 4 percentage points higher than China's (10.9%), and well above India's (6.0%). Singapore ties Hong Kong (15.3%) as the highest offer rate among the largest Asian applicant pools, though China sends far more total applications (1,991 vs Singapore's 637).
Why does National Junior College not appear in this data?
National Junior College WAS a real Oxford feeder in 2021 — 17 applications, 4 offers (24% offer rate), 3 acceptances — but its UCAS Apply Centre has had no row at all in Oxford's Non-UK listing for 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025. This dataset only counts applications submitted through a school's own registered Apply Centre, so the most likely explanation is that NJC students now apply via the generic "Apply Online Overseas" route or independently — not that NJC sent zero students to Oxford.
What does "suppressed" or "≤3" mean in this data?
Oxford and UCAS withhold any raw figure (applications, offers, or acceptances) under 3 to protect student anonymity. Wherever this article shows "≤3", the real number could be 0, 1, or 2, and should never be treated as exact or summed into a precise total.
The bottom line
Singapore's Oxford offer rate has stayed in a 14–20% band every year since 2021. 2025's 15.2% ties Hong Kong for the highest among Asia's biggest applicant pools. That's well ahead of China and India, even though both send far more applications. But these are national and school-level numbers, not a prediction for any one student: 1,821 Singapore-domiciled applications produced 296 offers over 2023–2025. Getting in is competitive either way.
Sources
University of Oxford — Admissions Statistics — “Nationality and Domicile” (2021–2025 cycles) and “UCAS Apply Centre” (Non-UK schools) Tableau dashboards. Every figure in this article is drawn directly from these official reports.